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This is an interesting video with some good, general information about Robert Stirling and his invention. It would be a good introduction to these engines for students and newbies, I would think. (Running Time: 14.30) English narrative [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8AoORLGyS0[/youtube] Ge...

As always Ian your on the money. Reading your post reminded me of a page from Peter Lynn. http://peterlynnhimself.com/Heinrici_2.5.php Where he states:- Most Heinricis in New Zealand were imported by a firm of Christchurch glaziers (Bradley Bro's Ltd) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They ...

I agree it looks like an Heinrici to me too also. Don't know why there would be no makers mark, weird. Was it ground off? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3uiJYCLjQc[/youtube] They came in many different sizes. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Heinrici_10.jpg If you pump wa...

Here are a group of articles about Stirling engines from 'New Scientist' (i didn't realise this mag was open for full viewing, from first issue in1956, up untill dec 1989, again i hope they allow more issues in the future). Some are about Stirling engines while other articles may just mention their ...

An old GM video with lots of very interesting alternative, car and engine, research demonstration vehicles. I'd recommend watching the whole thing, its really fascinating... But if you want to skip to the Stirling stuff it starts at about 7.15 (total video playtime 16min) (they mention and partially...

Thanks Fellas,
That would be very cool to get some information on the Daf car Ian. Its one I've not heard of before.
I hope there are a few more in the fog to be found.
vamoose

Decided to set myself a bit of a project, to make a visual compilation of cars (and other moving vessels) that have had Stirling engines in them (and visual proof of it). This is a preliminary listing of them for the moment I hope to improve and add to it over time ,hopefully with the help of others...

Hey aero, Personally I have never attempted this (but have thought about it in principle). It would be fairly easy in theory to make an engine with variable phasing that you could adjust between runs and then analyse the data. But to go one better, Koichi Hirata has made a platform where the phase a...

No worries Mario, I enjoyed reading them myself, so thought others would too. Kind of got sucked into some other articles as I read on (damn those science mags). I wish more sciency type magazines would allow Google books to display full views. 'Popular Science' magazines are open for full viewing f...

fullofhotair, I'm not sure of the ratios to valve openings and 'what not', as I am only guessing at all this stuff, still I find it interesting and am interested in wherever this line of investigation ends up. But like many of us on this forum I have my head space orientated in my own current line o...

Here's a video of his latest engine in which he uses a bellows power piston design. When you see it running at the end of the video (after he changed the design a bit), its power seems super impressive. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbYihmZnN9A[/youtube] He claims in a video comment somewh...

 ElecTech, I think that there are potentially more aspects of these engines that could be tabulated in your calculator, for example, the surface area of the heat exchanger walls, the related gap to the displacer, the duration the gas spends passing through this gap (rpm related) and the volume of ga...

OK, I kind of get what your saying. You might need somewhere for the gas to travel to, like another chamber or bladder or bellows, as the relative volume wants to expand and alternately contract as it heats and cools. This would help increase the amount of airflow through/past the turbine, I would t...

Amazing no fuel space engine you can build (with plans included...finally) http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KyYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA106&dq=amazing+no+fuel+space+engine+you+can+build&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tSSaUbBDgoCJB4npgdgC&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=amazing%20no%20fuel%20space%2...

Hey mate, Sometimes I personally find it hard to visualise what others are describing (and i guess, so can others), so maybe you could link us to some articles/images or something relevant, to help make your point. I too am interested in hot air turbines and have been playing with some different ide...